Elmhurst District 205 superintendent leaving for New York job David Moyer
Updated 1/15/2021 2:28 PM
Elmhurst Unit District 205 Superintendent David Moyer will step down at the end of the school year to take a position leading a New York school system.
The district announced Moyer s departure on Friday, just days after returning to some in-person learning amid pushback from the teachers union.
Moyer will take the helm of a district of similar size in LaGrangeville, New York, near Poughkeepsie. The school board there selected Moyer from a pool of more than 40 applicants. He will leave District 205 at the end of June. I want to feel like I m making an impact, and I have an impact to make yet, and I wanted to go somewhere where I felt that I could do that, Moyer said Friday. And I think this is a good fit, and it s in a region in the country where my wife and I would like to live.
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